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" Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve. "
J. K. Rowling
You
Enough
Got
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" It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. "
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" If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write. "
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" There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other. "
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" I am the freest author in the world. "
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I Am
World
Am
" I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I'm not based in Monaco... I think my country helped me. "
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Me
Feel
" There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing. "
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Writing
Something
Vehicles
" People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione. "
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Know
Me
" I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen. "
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Jane
Like
Writer
" The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution. "
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Beautiful
Truth
Must
" I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had. "
J. K. Rowling
Someone
Best
Remembered
" We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien. "
J. K. Rowling
Them
Lot
See
" Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer. "
J. K. Rowling
Whatever
You
Say
" The moment I said I'd finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who'd got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I'd written Harry Potter. That would have been why. "
J. K. Rowling
Book
Said
Someone
" My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer. "
J. K. Rowling
Temper
She
Hot
" Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose. "
J. K. Rowling
Way
Myself
Poetry
" I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write. "
J. K. Rowling
Will
Write
Want
" Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun. "
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Fun
Harry Potter
Some
" I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't need to write a book for adults. "
J. K. Rowling
Book
Need
Question
" I think I've really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I've put it behind me for the time being. "
J. K. Rowling
Fun
Exhausted
Time
" Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom. "
J. K. Rowling
Parents
Name
Hard
" On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story. "
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Story
Garden
Love
" I'm not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world. "
J. K. Rowling
Effort
People
World
" No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing. "
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Nothing
Writing
Sacrifice
" Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them. "
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Humans
Them
Choosing
" But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet. "
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Ever
Going
You
" I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind. "
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Writing
Children
Loved
" If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. "
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Equality
He
" When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance. "
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Very
Kind
Damaged
" The first story I finished was when I was six years old. "
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Story
Six
Years